It is always hard to judge the true relevance of events as they happen. Sometimes the biggest news stories have little long-term impact, while relatively unreported events can sometimes change the course of history.

Globalists have used social engineering to procure power and profits in the Western world. Social engineering can be described as psychological persuasion with rewards and repercussions. It's a form of manipulation that's based on deception, and gift wrapped as propaganda. Propaganda always has a target audience. For the globalists, it's primarily White people.

Filmmaker and Alternative Right contributor Richard Wolstencroft joins Andy Nowicki and Colin Liddell to look back on 2018, a year when, in Chairman Mao's immortal phrase, "There is great chaos under heaven, the situation is excellent!"

Among the topics discussed are the "drone siege" of Britain's airports, the ever-delayed Wall, the deplatforming of the Alt-Right, the Yellow Vest uprising in France, and the need for a new and potent "moral right."

In episode 16 of Unraveling Political Theory, Tim Bryant and Keith Preston will be discussing the burden of responsibility and asking with whom the responsibility should lie in the 21st century. To understand the world of politics and change it for the better, it’s paramount that people begin to study political theory and the ways in which it has manifest throughout history up into the present day. By bringing light to the origins of political and philosophical thought, the present day becomes all the more explainable because one is now able to see the logical progression of such manifestations.

Often the terms most used in any ideology are the ones that are the least examined. Either they are taken for granted or else slyly distorted to serve some internal agenda, in the process becoming either fetishistic totems and/or intellectual blind spots.

Affirmative Right Chief Editor Colin Liddell takes a much needed look at the term "identity" as used by identitarians, and considers whether the term has any validity.

Like any game, politics has specific rules. Among those an astute observer will discover the basic rule, which is that you either motivate the masses or they turn on you.

Since politics relies on appearance and not results, which come might later, it relies on the use of techniques that mobilize large groups by exciting them about an idea. To do this, you need to craft an idea with three vital traits:

Everything you've heard about the Yellow Vest protests is wrong. As you already know, they are not about a charge on diesel fuel to promote environmentalism. Nor are they about economic stresses and strains. The data I have suggests that it is Germans who should be in the streets rioting.

Diversity does not mean what White Liberals think it means. Where they see a cornucopia of "variety" for their jaded palates, the sane man instead sees a world of irreconcilable differences that must be respected, as the following article from 200 years ago shows.

The ladies in Japan gild their teeth; and those of the Indies paint them red. The pearl of teeth must be dyed black to be beautiful in Guzerat. In Greenland the women colour their faces with blue and yellow. However fresh the complexion of a Muscovite may be, she would think herself very ugly if she was not plastered over with paint.

As I’m writing news just broke that James Alex Fields, the 21-year-old Ohioan who plowed through a horde of peaceful protestors violent communists during the Unite the Right rally back in August of 2017, has just been convicted of first degree murder as of this afternoon December 7, 2018.

Brexit is very much in the news at the moment, with excessive amounts of "time-sensitive" commentary being produced, most of which will date extremely quickly.Affirmative Right Chief Editor Colin Liddell ignores the trivia, such as how long Theresa May will last or whether the UK will get reassurances on the Northern Ireland Backstop, and instead cuts through to the fundamentals that determine everything else, which the media is strangely reticent about reporting.

Like many people, I have been underestimating British Prime Minister Theresa May.

OK, maybe she's not so bright, but there is definitely a dark genius, scheming in the shadows behind her, a Svengali figure, who controls her. Because, going by today's news, she has just pulled off a quite remarkable coup.

In the mid-90s, with the referendum on independence in Quebec, linguistic tensions were at an all time high in Canada. After the defeat of the separatist option, however, there was an attitude of conciliation towards the French province from the Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.

In 2006 he recognized Quebec as “a distinct nation,” and with that the linguistic divide and the separatist movement seemed to be fading away. In the last provincial elections, for the first time since the 1970s, the separatist Parti Québécois became politically insignificant, with less than a dozen MMPs. As for its federal counterpart, the Bloc Québécois, it has almost vanished from the political scene, the vote being now divided on a left-right axis, rather than on a separatist-federalist demarcation.

Affirmative Right Chief Editor Colin Liddell on the conviction of Alex Fields for murder. This now allows the Left to "officially" connect Richard Spencer's Alternative Right to murder and to deplatform it further.

Liddell reflects on the sham elements of the trial, as well as the equally sham efforts by the Alt-Right to save "their guy", which merely consisted of making lots of tweets and kvetching on livestreams, rather than the more challenging objective of raising money for a proper defence team, which he clearly lacked.

When Alex Fields recklessly drove his car into a crowd of Leftists in Charlottesville last year, he was in all likelihood guilty of neglect and maybe of manslaughter. What he was not guilty of was murder, a very specific crime that requires a strong degree of premeditation. However, the Left, which controls both the town of Charlottesville and the media which is framing this trial, needs Fields to be guilty of murder. Nothing less will do.

At his new "Right-Wing English Teacher" YouTube page, Andy Nowicki discusses the two generally acknowledged giants of Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and their vastly divergent perspectives on modernity and its discontents.

The French have a term for it, L’esprit de l’escalier, or “staircase wit.” It means bright and witty sayings thought of too late as one is exiting a party. But history has its own “staircase” element as well, namely events that receive historical attention much later than they should if, as we are supposed to believe, they were so important to begin with.

The priest with whom I scheduled a meeting about my "demon" problem was—I am
convinced--- a man of personal decency and theological reliability. I do not
have an easy time opening up to people, particularly if they strike me as
fundamentally unserious in nature or disingenuous in temperament. It is not
enough to intuit genuine compassion in another person, though compassion is, of
course, a desirable, indeed, a necessary characteristic in a confidant.But I find it foolish to seek spiritual intimacy based
merely on the sense that a would-be adviser seems “well-meaning.” Good
intentions are a good thing… but they are also known to pave the road to a certain
loathsome place which I have visited all too frequently, one I very much wish
to avoid taking up as a permanent residence.

Affirmative Right chief editor Colin Liddell wishes listeners a happy "St. Andrews Day" and explains why the Scots picked a Jew, who never came to Scotland or even knew Scotland existed, to be their patron saint.

Also, discussed and compared is Saint George, the Greek who somehow became the patron saint of England.

For a country to survive, it needs not just well-policed borders but also a positive identity and a strong nationalist faith. Instead, most opposition to illegal immigration in American today is merely based on peripheral factors, such as whether illegals are likely to be gang members or not, place a burden on public services, etc. The migrant caravan is a cynical plot to target this ideological weakness by bombarding Americans with imagery designed to appeal to their "feelz." But, as RamZPaul shows in this video, many of the images are contrived and faked for maximum effect.

I write with the consciousness of a man who strongly
suspects he has acquired a demon.

While not feeling himself to be overtly possessed by said
demon, your faithful interlocutor nevertheless struggles to comprehend his
current psychic state in absence of rhetorical recourse to citation of the doings
of the denizens of the infernal realm.

I am not possessed, I don’t think. Nothing unknown has
invaded my body or breached the borders of my consciousness. Still, my mind is
demon-haunted, and my heart is devil-bedeviled. An infernal element has entered
my interior line of vision, and I can’t seem to avoid glimpsing him; he is
always in front of me, though often merely in my peripherals. At times I can
forget that he is even there, but then, with a wash of dread, I remember him
again.

Due to the obsessive grip that antisemitism exerts on weak and immature minds, most of the lies that exist in the Alt-Right seem to focus on matters relating to the Jews.

This is pretty odd, especially if you consider the fact that nothing reinforces disappearing Jewish identity better than the kind of ineffectual antisemitism that the present-day Alt-Right specialises in.

With the welcome departure of war mongering UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, the Trump Administration’s neocon tag team of death and destruction – Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor (NSA), John Bolton – have enthusiastically taken up where the repellent Haley has left off. It is highly doubtful that the former Ambassador will meekly stay under the rock beneath which she crawled. It seems possible that she will reappear as a primary challenger to her former boss in 2020, and, most certainly, as a Presidential contender in 2024.

Since the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting of October 27th, the Anti Defamation League of the B’nai Brith (ADL) has been welcomed in all the major media outlets as a respectable representative of not only the Jewish community, but also of “a world without hate,” a phrase cleverly trademarked by the powerful organization. Somebody with no prior knowledge of the ADL or its director Jonathan Greenblatt could easily believe that they represent and teach tolerance. This has little to do with reality as Kaiter Enless's book Defamation Factory makes clear.

Driving around today, it became clear that most people were heavily distracted. They stopped in the middle of the road, randomly, and paused there for a long time. If you honked, they looked at you, bewildering: weren’t you experiencing the same confusion they were? Or fundamentally: is the world not just an extension of myself?

Thanks to the turbulence being caused by the Brexit negotiations, UK politics are particularly unstable at the moment.

This could easily lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Theresa May's shambolic government, and we might even see a general election being announced within weeks or even days. After that, who knows what will happen.

Robert Stark and Matthew Pegas talk to Affirmative Right contributor Richard Wolstencroft about the 19th Melbourne Underground Film Festival, of which he is the director.

Among the topics are Robert and Matthew's own documentary Supply, which won the "Best Guerrilla" Film Award, Lauren Southern’s Farmlands, which took the "Best Film" award, and past MUFF alumni like James Wan of Saw fame. Also under discussion are the populist movements in Europe, the persecution of White South African farmers, the recent Melbourne terror attack, new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and the Midterm elections in America.

The following is an excerpt from Andy Nowicki's upcoming publication, tentatively titled Demon in the Rough

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Film is like music in its ability to transfix and captivate
its audience. Both the visual and the aural are mediums through which a
hypnotic effect can take hold, causing the participant in the medium to “lose
himself” temporarily and engage entirely with that which what spills into his
ears and assails his eyes.

It's obvious that failed Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer's parents didn't pay much attention to him as a child. Ever since, he's been on a one-man mission to compensate for that by attracting as much attention to himself as possible, either through his amateur dramatics or edgytarian "hot takes" on the issues of the day. Spencer generates a lot of heat but very little light. Steven Sailer, by contrast, is the exact opposite, a self-effacing, data-driven intellect, who makes real change, without attracting pointless drama. YouTuber Luke Ford compares the two.

This piece was originally posted on the 100th anniverary of Princip's assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdiand, an event which is widely agreed to have touched off World War I. It is reposted today, on the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day, which signaled the end of that horrific, tragic, and seemingly pointless conflict.

"I’m on a mission, cuz now I’ve had itI watch their system, then spit right at it!I was born and plated, a schmuck they createdI’ll explode, I’ll erode! Yeah, I’ll break your fuckin’ codeCuz I’m an automatic schmuck… with a tendency to rock!"～The Hives

An assassin commits murder, but not just any murder. He kills not for the thrill—though killing may indeed be thrilling for him—but because it is something he must do, either because it is his paid profession, or simply because he views such a task as his grisly responsibility.

In 1998, due to death threats and other pressures, holocaust revisionist David Cole faked his own death and began a new life as David Stein, a Hollywood insider and Republican Party activist. In 2014, however, his true identity was revealed, leading to Cole being shunned by his Republican friends and losing work. Now, thanks to the election of Trump, the mood has changed so much in the GOP that Cole has been "rehabilitated" by important figures on the mainstream right like Ann Coulter.

NOTE: I wrote this take-down of John Lennon and the battle over his dubious legacy for Tokyo Journal in 2000, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, after a visit to the John Lennon Museum in Japan. It is one of the 22 pieces included in my first book Interviews and Obituaries, available on Amazon.

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20 years after he was gunned down outside a New York apartment block, John Lennon is still with us. Here in Japan, he's with us even more, following the recent opening of a museum dedicated to him in Saitama.

Echoing the powerful points made in the Trad News articles "Black Voters Punish Trump for Finding Them Jobs" and "Jewish Voters Punish Trump for Moving the Embassy to Jerusalem," Boomer-slash-Gen-X Nationalist RamZPaul points out the mistaken beliefs of those in the Trump camp who thought that Blacks and Jews would reward Trump and the GOP by changing their tribal voting patterns. He also blackpills on the demographic changes that are now sweeping the nation, which will make it increasingly difficult to elect conservative, White-friendly governments in the future.

CNN, FOX News, NBC and Facebook have all concluded that Trump's paid political advertisement about illegal immigration is too offensive to air (Facebook blocked the ad from being distributed on their network).

What doesn't kill Gab only makes it stronger. Styxhexenhammer666 comments on the welcome return of Gab, the social media platform that was shut down in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Twitter without the censorship! So, why do we need Twitter? Get on Gab!

The problem that arises when you're the greatest nation in the history of the world, is that there's no real problems to deal with. There's no war. Anybody who wants a job can get one. Nobody starves to death. Everybody has access to medical care. Even beggars can make six figures a year.

Affirmative Right Chief Editor Colin Liddell discusses the US midterms, before turning his attention to UK Chancellor Philip Hammond's latest Budget. Hyped as the "End of Austerity" Budget, Liddell argues that the package of tax cuts and increased government spending is economically moronic but politically astute, and is influenced by the tragic fate of John Major's government in the 1990s which unwittingly fattened the calf for its Labour opponents.

Brazilliant! As widely expected, the hard-right, populist candidate Jair Bolsonaro has won the 2nd and final round of the Brazilian Presidential Election, taking 55% of the vote against the 45% for Fernando Haddad from the left-wing Workers Party. Notice the conspicuous lack of centrist candidates in the final round? This was a hard-right guy against a hard-left guy and luckily the right guy won.

Like many others, Andy Nowicki has noticed a glaringly significant fact regarding the recently reported massacre of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: namely, the fact that an "active shooter drill" apparently took place in the exact same neighborhood 10 months earlier.

Via YouTube, Andy reports on this startling discovery and its significance.

We have known for some time that Big Tech is going down, and that like the last two crashes, it will take down the economy with it.

The first dot-com crash came right after the 1990s ended when people figured out that all this gee-whiz stuff did not actually sell products. The next kaboom came just after mobile internet came about, and was somewhat obscured by the larger financial crisis that it exacerbated. The next crash will rip out even more of our economy.

Written in 2000, Brooks' book focused on how American elites were reinventing their cultural image, using bourgeois and bohemian tropes from the 19th century—hence "Bobo." This later led to the creation of modern day Hipster culture. Among the topics covered are the synergy between Bobo culture and the Neoliberal restructuring of the US economy, virtue signaling, Trustafarians, urban gentrification, and sartorial slumification.

The Retard Right, by which I mean scum like the (((Daily Stormer))) and (((TRS))), which both happen to be Jewish controlled, only exists to provide the Left with the means of shutting down genuine nationalists and sincere Right Wingers.

The following is an excerpt from Andy Nowicki's upcoming publication, tentatively titled Demon in the Rough

Like “the news,” which today is typically administered
televisually or electronically to produce an immediate result in the brain of its
targeted “consumer,” music is also notorious for being a mood-influencer, even
to the point of altering one’s very consciousness.

As a frequent cause of
powerful psychic reverberations in collective hearts and minds, music can in
fact pose a great danger to social harmony if it is harnessed by nefarious
sources bent on bringing agitation and upset.

With no joy did I read that Richard Spencer will find himself in divorce court soon since his ex-wife has both filed for divorce and, as we might have guessed, the press rushed to the divorce papers to look for nasty stuff to say about the one man who has really threatened their hegemony over the past few years.

Affirmative Right's Chief Editor Colin Liddell talks about the recent murder of journalist Jamal Khasshogi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and how it is being weaponised for geopolitical gain by President Erdogan of Turkey. He contends that what we are seeing here is a geopolitical struggle for hegemony in the Sunni Muslim World between a revanchist "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey and a medievalist Saudi Arabian monarchy that is attempting to use its oil billions to burnish its image with modern PR tactics and appeals to the West.

Stefan Molyneux on the "October Surprise" of the Honduran invasion caravan. Just in time for the Midterm Elections a horde of migrants, fed and ferried North by shady NGOs and buoyed by "bleeding heart" stories in the liberal media, descends on the still unwalled US border. What is the game plan here, what kind of precedents will it set if it succeeds, and what should the Trump administration be doing to deal with this attack on America?

After a 10-month gap, Affirmative Right Editor Colin Liddell and Assistant Editor Andy Nowicki return for a joint podcast on the NPC meme. Why has equating Leftists and Liberals with peripheral computer game characters struck such a chord? Can there also be NPCs on the right? All this and more in the return of Andy and Colin's legendary podcast.

While the farcical Kavanaugh confirmation hearings dominated the news cycle for the past couple of weeks, little mention was made of a disturbing economic headline – the August US trade deficit. Despite all the bluster from the Trump Administration about “winning trade wars” and “trade wars are easy,” America’s trade imbalances for August were the highest ever and its deficit with its most contentious partner – China – reached an all-time high.

One of the most interesting is the fact that two of the most prominent Jewish members of the Central Committee (CC)—and subsequently important members of the early Politburos—were the main opposition to the decision to carry out the revolution, while the non-Jewish members of the CC were entirely behind the resort to violent action.

After pushing feminism and multiculturalism till most normal people want to puke, the BBC has now decided that what the UK needs more of is "LGBT" and gay characters to combat what it calls Britain's evil, "heteronormative culture.